dognovel Chapter 183 They have made it!
Chapter 183 They have made it!
The work of washing dishes and wiping tables is all done by Boss Zhou.
The two buckets of jelly were sold out very quickly. Many people who were in line but didn't get one said it was a pity and complained why they didn't prepare more.
Liu and Zhu kept apologizing to them, saying that they would prepare more tomorrow and come earlier, and asked them to come again tomorrow. Only then did the diners leave in disappointment.
The crowd dispersed, and Liu opened the small box on the table for collecting money. The copper coins inside were stacked one on top of the other, and it was impossible to tell at a glance how many there were.
"Sister-in-law, put it in your money bag first and count it when we get home."
Zhu gave a careful reminder to avoid being seen by some bad people.
"Okay, okay, now that we're all sold out, are we going to go home or go for a walk on the street?"
Liu touched the heavy purse and was extremely happy.
"We don't seem to have anything to buy at home. I always feel it's dangerous to walk around outside with this bag of money."
What Zhu meant was to leave early.
"Okay, let's pack up and go home, but it's so early, should we go to Chen Sheng's place to pick up San Ya?"
"Yes, take her away. I'm worried about her going back alone."
"Yes, that's what I thought."
After the three of them had discussed it, they drove their donkey cart to Chen Sheng’s pharmacy.
Zhou Mingshu, Chen Banxia and Chen Gansong were sitting together chatting. Before she finished telling them about the interesting things that had happened during this period, she saw a familiar person at the door.
"Uncle, aunt, mother, why are you here?" Zhou Mingshu glanced at the three people's faces and found that they were all smiling. Then he looked at the empty bucket on the donkey cart. What was there to not understand?
"Have you sold out all the food?" Zhou Mingshu knew this would happen. Someone would definitely buy such delicious food, but he still pretended to be surprised.
"Hahaha yes, dear girl, we're all sold out."
"Yes, they were all sold out in a short while. Those people didn't have enough to eat, so we prepared some more."
The three of them hugged each other, their faces filled with excitement.
Zhou Mingshu then realized that they came to take her home, worried that it would be unsafe for her to go back alone.
Lianglin Village is indeed quite far from the town, and Zhou Mingshu doesn't want to run. After all, in such hot weather, running such a long distance would make one exhausted.
"Okay, then I'll tell Uncle Chen."
Zhou Mingshu conveyed the matter in detail, and Mr. Chen understood what he meant.
After the adults met and said a few words of congratulations, Zhou Mingshu got on the donkey cart and left.
"Auntie, mother, how many buckets of jelly are you going to make tomorrow? Two buckets today, four buckets tomorrow? Or six buckets? Do we have that many buckets at home?"
Zhou Mingshu asked this question with all his heart, and directly asked Boss Zhou to stop the donkey cart and turn around to walk towards the carpenter shop.
"Thanks to San Ya, otherwise we would have gone home and still be staring blankly. They say they want to make a few more buckets, but there's no place to put them at home. We can't just hold them in our hands."
After Boss Zhou finished speaking, everyone in the car burst into laughter.
I received so much money today that I was so happy that I lost my mind.
After buying four buckets from the carpenter's shop, they drove out of the town and headed towards Lianglin Village.
With a donkey cart, the journey was fast. In about forty minutes, they arrived at their doorstep.
Those waiting at home are already impatient.
Seeing him come back so soon, I thought the business was not done, but when I looked over, I found both buckets were empty.
This shows that the jelly business is successful.
Next, we need to calculate how much money we made on this trip.
Everyone was lying on the table counting the copper coins, putting them together in piles, each pile being ten cents.
"There are a total of 240 copper coins!!"
Liu was so excited that she almost jumped up. She earned so much money on the first day of opening. She was really making a fortune.
Zhou Mingshu was calculating the costs on the side.
The ratio of mung bean powder to water is generally 1:6, so one pound of jelly needs to be mixed with six pounds of water.
A bucket of jelly weighs about 30 jin, so the mung bean powder used is about 4 jin, which requires about 12 jin of mung beans. Therefore, the cost of a bucket of mung bean powder is about 50 wen, plus various seasonings of about 20 wen, so the total cost of a whole bucket is about 70 wen.
So after all the calculations, the net profit from the two buckets of jelly today is one hundred coins.
Liu and Zhu hugged each other happily.
They have made it!
So one bucket of jelly can sell forty bowls. Zhou Mingshu thought about it and decided that it wouldn’t be too tiring for two people to work together.
Everyone in Zhou's family was very happy. Without waiting to rest, they went to the kitchen to weigh out green beans and soak them.
As long as this business can be successful, they will do it seriously and expand the scale.
I bought four buckets today, which are about the same size as the ones I have at home.
They have to prepare six buckets of jelly tomorrow.
If all six barrels of jelly can be sold, the net profit can be maintained at around three hundred wen.
To earn three hundred coins a day was a huge amount for these rural people.
They could earn one or two taels of silver in these three or four days. Liu and Zhu were very excited and full of energy.
Regardless of the hot weather, they had lunch and even cancelled their nap, and picked up buckets to grind soy milk at the door of the village chief's house.
Zhou Mingshu looked at them and shook his head and laughed. This was really exciting.
They were tired after working all morning and hadn't had a rest until now. They really should stop and rest for a while.
But if you put yourself in her shoes, if such a surprise happened to her, she would also not be able to control her excitement.
Just wait a couple of days and it will be fine.
Old Mrs. Zhou pulled out two bags of wheat to dry. She planned to clean the two bags of wheat, wash them clean and prepare to grind them into flour.
"Mother, shouldn't we wait for the government officials to come and collect the grain tax?"
Boss Zhou was a little puzzled. His mother's actions this year were a little too fast.
"What's the big deal? We can wash and dry the flour early and then grind it after the government officials have weighed it. It doesn't matter whether we do it early or late. We don't need a pound or half a pound of earthen scale."
Old Mrs. Zhou happily picked up the broken stones in the winnowing basket. The children in the family have grown up and their appetite has greatly increased. The new steamed buns she made can be finished within two days.
The situation at home is much better now than before. Now there is food at home, so we naturally cannot let the children go hungry anymore. From now on, they will be provided with whatever they want to eat!
"Don't get in my way. Why don't you go to the village chief's house and help your wife? There are dozens of kilograms of mung beans there."
Old Mrs. Zhou rolled her eyes, wondering how her son had the nerve to stay at home and sleep in?
"Mom, look at what you said, I'm just about to go there, right?"
Boss Zhou smiled awkwardly, buttoned up his shirt, and went out.
Old Mrs. Zhou picked up the wheat grains in her hand and twisted her mouth.